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By Tirthankar Mitra Come winter, a season of mellow fruitfulness, Kolkata springs up pleasant surprises. A three day festival on Sahir Ludhianvi, whose lines of love and protest are still hummed began on December 15 at Dhana Dhanyo stadium. Tributes are paid to an individual’s memory usually on his/her birth anniversary or the day he […]

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India Inc’s appetite to spend on capital projects is high despite some concerns around elevated geopolitical tensions impacting demand in the coming months. Several top industry officials ET spoke to say the momentum for capital investments remains strong and transient pressures will not impact companies’ making long-term bets on domestic growth. As a result, the […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s economy would grow 6.7 per cent in Financial Year 2023-24 (FY24), said Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday, raising the estimate from 6.3 per cent it made in September. The lender revised its estimate based on India’s higher-than-expected gross domestic product (GDP) growth, of 7.6 per cent, in the second quarter of […]

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By Anjan Roy It was a contradiction in terms. One of the largest producers of fossil fuels, UAE, was hosting the UN talks on limiting use of such fuels to cut down CO2 emissions and thereby help keep earth’s temperature rise within the stipulated 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.   At the end of the […]

The post COP28’s Agreed Document Is A Bundle Of Contradictions On Major Issues first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: Indian economy, dubbed the fastest growing major economy in the world, is faced with the single most important pressure point of job creation, says former RBI Governor Raghuram G Ranjan as he makes a strong case for improvement of human capital through skill development. Talking about the book ‘Breaking the mould: Reimagining India’s […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s e-retail market is expected to reach over $160 billion by 2028 as more Indian households join the upper middle and upper income consumer cohorts. According to a report released by Bain & Company and Flipkart, the e-retail market is estimated to scale up to $57-$60 billion in 2023, up 17-20 per cent […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The impressive gains in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan could not blind the BJP leadership to the fact of its declining share of votes in all the states in November 2023 elections compared to Lok Sabha Election 2019, and hence it was compelled to bring new faces as Chief Ministers as […]

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By Sushil Kutty Is Kashmir now settled issue? The Supreme Court verdict says ‘Yes’ and National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah put his seal of approval to the Supreme Court verdict on the abrogation of Article 370. Nobody could have put it more succinctly than Farooq Abdullah, not even his son Omar Abdullah. In King’s language, […]

The post Irrespective Of Supreme Court Verdict, Kashmir Remains An Unsettled Issue first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

The Indian economy is growing leaps and bounds and despite the global geopolitical challenges, the country remains a bright spot for investors globally. According to recent report by GlobalData, a total of 920 VC funding deals were announced in India during January-October 2023, registering a decline of 38.6 percent in comparison to the 1,499 VC […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The shock that BJP had to suffer in Karnataka Vidhan Sabha election in May 2023 is not yet over when it was not able to win even a single seat reserved for Scheduled Tribe (ST), though the party somehow made inroads to a great extent in the November 2023 Vidhan Sabha […]

The post BJP Tries To Restore ST Support Base By Choosing A Tribal Cm In Chhattisgarh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran It may not have been as high-profile as the ‘call of national duty’ press conference by the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court about six years ago. But the renewed controversy about the master of the roster, prompting two senior advocates of the apex court to write to Chief Justice […]

The post Master Of Roster Controversy: History Repeats Itself After A Gap Of Six Years first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

The sombre look of the Congress after the over three-hours long introspection on the Rajasthan election loss may not lead to any drastic change in the party. The state held true to its flip-flop nature of electing the opposition to power every five years, but the Delhi leadership of the Congress feels a win was […]

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MUMBAI: In a move to enhance security, integrity and privacy of financial sector data and bring transparency on fintechs in the country, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to establish a cloud facility and a repository for capturing information on fintech firms. The Indian Financial Technology and Allied Services (IFTAS), a wholly-owned subsidiary […]

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India’s economic growth can become faster if the much-awaited private capital formation kicks into higher gear, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Friday.Nageswaran said that post-COVID financial balance sheets of corporates have been positive.”For economic growth we need to have investment spending … India economic growth can become faster and accelerate if the […]

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NEW DELHI: Markets need to evolve more mechanisms to reward the States that are managing their fiscal responsibilities prudently, N K Singh, Chairman, 15th Finance Commission,  and President, Institute of Economic Growth, said. Today, the markets don’t really differentiate on the cost of borrowing between a profligate State and a prudent State. There is a […]

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By Harihar Swarup Finally, somebody has politically owned him—Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the 7th Prime Minister of India. Though he changed the course of Indian politics, and unleashed forces leading irreversibly to the rise and rise of OBCs, a process that is likely to influence the 2024 elections, the Mandal messiah, as “VP” was popularly called, […]

The post Former Prime Minister V P Singh Who Mandalised Politics, Has Become Relevant Again first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The cat phrase “Modi Hai to Mumkin Hai” was proved correct by none else but Narendra Modi himself when he succeeded in his mission to have Mahua Moitra of TMC expelled from Lok Sabha by manipulating the parliamentary procedures and practices. In the history of the parliamentary politics this was for the […]

The post Mahua’s Unethical Expulsion From Lok Sabha Is Going To Strengthen INDIA Bloc first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra’s expulsion from Lok Sabha following an Ethics Committee report into the ‘cash for query’ charges against her has given much-needed ammunition to her party to raise the issue in the run-up to the 2024 polls. On Friday, as Moitra made her way out of Parliament, not just TMC MPs but […]

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NEW DELHI: Hiring activity for white-collar jobs witnessed a 12 per cent on-year decline during October-November largely due to fall in recruitment trends in IT-Software, telecom and education sectors, a report said on Thursday. White-collar recruitment during October-November declined by 12 per cent with 2,433 job postings, compared to 2,781 during the corresponding months in […]

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